City Council Debates Water Meters and Pump Plan
City water issues dominate a long meeting with talk of suburban water meters funded by users outside town, a repaired propeller pump now 42 feet down the well, and debate over a milk inspection ordinance. Letters from P K Woods about the pump and several city reports frame the session, ending with meter confusion as outsiders already have meters.
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P. K. Woods
Insane Asylum
Woods
Los Angeles
City Water Commissioner
Aldermanic Board
Wood
Engineer Crosier
Rocky Ford
Talbot
Pure Springs Water Co
Water Com. Kendig
Ald. Sprinker
Mark Denson
Densons
Ald. Baldwin
Browne
Ald. Ritchie
Valley View
Catlin
Beall
Barnes Plat
Garden Place
Barnes
Sprinker
Water Committee
Water Commissioner
Brown
Merk
Rapid Transit Talk Called By The Board Of Trade
The Board of Trade invited E S Alnutt of Salina Kansas and A J Behymer of Elwood Indiana to present interurban rail plans through Otero county at a Wednesday meeting led by Pres Lockhart. Proposals include a Rocky Ford to La Junta line with gasoline motor cars and a Canon City La Junta electric road, with franchise discussions and potential local financing.
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Board of Trade
Pres. Lockhart
E. S. Alnutt
Salina
A. J. Behymer
Elwood
Ind
Otero County
G. W. Swink
J. E. Gauger
Rocky Ford
F. A. Sabin
R. G. Dalton
J. B. Pearce
la Junta
One Way to Build a Car Line
The Grand Forks Daily Herald outlines a streetcar project funded by property owners along the line rather than traditional investors. It calculates real estate value gains, suggesting roughly 50 cents per front foot increase on properties within two blocks per mile, potentially totaling about $200,000 for ten miles of track.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Daily Herald
The
Herald
Which Will It Be A Gasoline Motor Car Debate
A local editorial discusses growing use of gasoline motor cars on rail lines and a proposed rapid transit scheme in the Valley. It cites a Philadelphia Motor Print article arguing gasoline power will surpass electricity, with claims about internal combustion efficiency, noise, and cost.
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Philadelphia Motor Print
Interurban promoters survey Arkansas Valley line
Promoters A J Beyhmer George Kendall with Dr D W Selden and T J Stanley visited Wednesday to review the preliminary survey of the Arkansas Valley Interurban railroad. They reported strong local enthusiasm along the Bent Company line and predicted ongoing activity until right of way is secured and operation begins. Local papers urge the city council to require bonds and timely construction before granting franchises, warning against stock manipulation schemes.
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A. J. Beyhmer
George Kendall
Arkansas Valley Interurban Railroad
D. W. Selden
T. J. Stanley
Manzanola
Fowler Tribune
la Junta
Pruned His Cantaloupes After Ahail Devastation
J E Gauger in Swink area faced a hail storm that destroyed 40 acres of cantaloupes on unplowed ground. He pruned vines by cutting at the stalk with fifteen workers from Japan to encourage regrowth. An earlier similar experiment had successful results.
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J. E. Gauger
Swink
LOUPE CONTROVERSY AND CANTALOUPE CLAIMS STIR RIO GRANDE VALLEY
The Enterprise edits controversy over Dr. Van Buskirk’s Netted Rock cantaloupes. Letters dispute 69 day maturity, noting April snow and cool May. Producers Murray and local growers display unripe examples at Farmers & Merchants Bank. A P Kouns and D W Burrell list early Rocky Ford records. climate slows crop with August 15 ripening forecast.
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Anont
van Buskirk
Ford Country
Dr. van Buskirk
W. K. Murray
Texas
Florida
Doc
Geo. H. Rucker
Loupe
F P. K. Bunn
Gentle Hint to Mamas at Church Services
A mother let a baby roam the uncarpeted church aisles causing distraction. An elderly lady picked up the child and removed its shoes, which the child returned to the mother. The mother then kept the child beside her for the rest of the service.
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City Council
Interurban Railway Promotion Public Meeting
Saratoga
Sanitas
Barrington Hall
Wagner
William
Long
Heinz
Crawford
Ife
Lowney’s
Kimzey
Wek
the Enterprise
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